Posts by gstrock

Redhat Server Farms

I remember back in the day, when Redhat was free, before RHEL. They were the distro of choice for places like Rackspace and Rack Shack (remember them?). Redhat was every where. Then overnight they dropped the free and became RHEL. I'm just reminiscing here.

Dislike Redhat

I managed a Redhat webserver for 10 years. In that time I have come to dislike Redhat. Their repositories are small, which means anything I install outside of their repo, I have to watch for and manage security updates myself.

I don't like their rpm software manager at all. I much prefer apt-get of the Debian world.

At work we use Gentoo and Ubuntu Linux. My greatest fear is that a no-nothing manager will standardize us on Redhat.